“Obviously he’s a very busy man and so was I. So we’ve been in contact since I’ve been here. He’s a Dean Smith guy. I went to a breakfast very early on when I first came to Denver, a charity event down at the Pepsi Center,” Fox told reporters at the Broncos team headquarters shortly after the news about Karl was made public.

When a reporter asked Fox about how much job security coaches of pro teams really have, he said the following:

“It depends on what you’re talking about, if you’re talking about job security or game-to-game. You just do the best you can do, and hopefully it’s good enough.”